 I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 35by Samuel Johnson - 1818Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 654 pages
...beautifully described, in which he first conceived the notion of his own account of his wanderings. ' I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance...rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 pages
...beautifully described, in which he first conceived the notion of his own account of his wanderings. ' I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance...rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...Spain, same day, 1678. Johnson is in the bosom of the Highlands, beyond Anoch, near Gleniheali, 1783 : " I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to feign. The day was calm, the air was soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...— WALTER SCOTT.] 3 !)r. Johnson, in his Journey, thus beautifully describes hU situation here : " rivulel streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence and solitude.... | |
 | 1882 - 844 pages
..."Journey to the Western Isles" shows touches of the true feeling. Thus of Auchnasheel he observes : — I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance...rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me* and on either side were high hills, which,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...WALTER SCOTT.] •' Dr. Johnson, in his Journey, thus beautifully describes his situation here : " I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance might liave delighted to feign. 1 had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...parents all happy. The poor M'Croas, scribes his situation here : " I sat down on a bank, such as « writer of romance might have delighted to feign. I...rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and ail was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 410 pages
...situation here :-— " I sat down on a bank, such as u writer of romance might have delighted to feigri. I had, indeed, no trees to whisper over my head; but...rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...copper, and made them and their parents all happy. The poor M'Craas, scribes his situation here : " I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of romance...rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 434 pages
...Johnson, in his "Journey," thus beautifully describes his situation here: — " I sat down on a hank, such as a writer of romance might have delighted to...; but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day waa calm, the air soft, and all wns rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side,... | |
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